Fastening or locking device for trousers presses



fiwewfor .45: Cfiam 519119 Nov. 5 11923.

E. CHAMBERS Filed March 22. 1922 Fatented Nov. 6 i923.

EDWARD CHAMBERS, 0F WVINGHESTER, ENGLAND.

Application filed March 22, 1:322. Serial No. 545,697.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that T, EDWARD CHAMBERS, a citizen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and. resident of Cheesehill Street, Winchester, in the county of Hampshire, England, have invented cer tain new and useful "improvements in a and the back board respectively.

It has been proposed to mount levers on the boards for the purpose of squeezing them together and my invention has reference to these levers and consists in con structing them so that they will work in pairs instead of separately as hitherto made. The levers are pivot-ally mounted on the back board and adapted to engage devices, say pins on the front board, and are joined together by a cross bar which may be either close to their pivot ends or preferably at their other or outer ends. The said pivots may be mounted directly on the back board or on a spring device thereon by which they have some limited movement in relation to the back board, more particularly for the purpose of enabling the press to take a variable number of trousers or trousers of different thicknesses.

I find it advantageous to form a groove in the levers and to provide the front boards with pins which will slide in the grooves, the ends of which grooves adjacent to the pivots on the back board are so shaped that when the levers are depressed the pins in the front board will lock the two boards together.

An example of my invention is shown in the accompanying drawings in which:-

Fig. 1 shows a trousers press of the hinged type partly open and to which my invention is applied.

Fig. 2 shows a detail of a method of mounting the lever pivots on springs and also shows the position taken by the pins on the front board when the press is closed.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary view of the end of one of the levers.

In this example the front board a, is hingedly attached to the back board I) in well known manner. Pivots c are mounted on the return ends of a cross bar 6 of metal positioned within a groove within a larger cross bar 7 of wood secured to the back ofthe board 6. Springs 9 are interposed between the bar 6 and the board "0. Levers i, j, are mounted on the pivots o and are joined together by a cross bar In. Each lever is grooved as seen at Z on its inner side, said groove taking fixed pivots m on the front board a. The inner or pivot ends or the grooves are curved as seen at Z and of such length that when the levers are pressed down and lie substantially parallel with the edges of the boards the pins 27 take a position very slightly above the centre oi the pivots c and thus lock the levers until they are again lifted by the cross bar 70.

It is not essential that the pivots 0 should be mounted on springs and they could be formed as a cross bar at the back of the board 6 for the purpose of joining the levers together in which case the cross bar it could be dispensed with.

What I claim is l. A. trousers press comprising two boards hinged together, two levers mounted on resiliently supported pivots at the edge of one board, a bar connecting the levers together so as to make them work in unison, means on the edge of the other board and engaged by the levers whereby on turning the levers on their pivots the boards will be pressed together.

52. A trousers' press, comprising two boards hinged together, two levers pivotally mounted at the edge of one board having grooves with curved extremities adjacent the pivots formed therein, a bar connecting the levers together to make them. work in unison, and pins on the edges of the other board riding in the grooves and curved eX- tremities thereof.

3. A trousers press, comprising twoboards hinged together, two levers pivotally mounted at the edge of one board having grooves formed therein, a bar connecting the levers together to make them work in unison, and pins on the edges of the other board riding in the grooves in the levers.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD CHAMBERS.

Witnesses:

HENRY FAIRBROTHER, ARTHUR Warmers. 

